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Through previous grant awards from IES, researchers developed Graspable Math, a tablet-based intervention where middle and high school students create and manipulate complex expressions for basic operations as well as equations and equations systems and inequalities. In this project, the team will develop a prototype of Graspable Math Activities, an app with novel kinds of algebra practice and ass ...

To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

SUMMARY Although solid tumors oftentimes arise from the uninhibited growth of a single aberrant cellthe population of cells within a tumor are genetically and molecularly heterogenousThis makes it very difficult to evaluate a therapy s efficacy when using bulk population measurementsFurthermorerecent research has implicated microRNAsmiRNAsas drivers of progression and malignancy in many tumor type ...

Global epidemics of obesity and its associated comorbidities pose formidable challenges to human healthCurrent few medications available for obesity treatment only produce modest effects and are usually accompanied with unpleasantpotentially harmful side effectsThere is accumulating evidence that significant metabolic differences that distinguish beige brown adipocytes from white adipocytes can po ...

The number of decayed and filled tooth surfaces in primary dentition is on the rise in US children between the ages ofandyears oldin factof adolescentsbetweenandyears oldandout ofdentate seniorsagebear evidence of dental cariesReinforced with areport statingof those between the ages ofandhave dental cariesvirtually all walks of life are thus affectedand this doesn t even include those unreportedor ...

Abstract Aboutleg and hip fractures each year are treated by implanting a stiff metal rod or intramedullaryIMnailthrough the center of the bone and fixing the ends of the nail to the bone with screwsBut placing the locking screws to fix the rod to the bone is difficultTo anchor the nail securelythe surgeon must accurately drill pilot holes through both the bone and locking holes in the nailwhile t ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chemical risk assessment has been widely applied in chemical industry as a necessary step to get new commercial chemicals registeredand in governmental agencies as a critical procedure to evaluate the toxicity of chemicals in order to properly regulate them to protect human health and the environmentThe Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act further strengthens the importance of chemical r ...

Project Summary Abstract SignificanceThe failure of bone fractures to adequately repair in elderly patients causes significant morbidity and mortality each year in the United StatesThis problem will continue to be exacerbated by an aging populationwith aincrease in hip fractures alone expected byand significant costs in lost workquality of lifephysical therapyextended care facility staysand surger ...

In this Phase I application IsoPlexis proposes to deliver a novel method for targeted profiling of both the transcriptome and secretome from an array ofsingle central and peripheral immune cellsSpecificallywe will deliver a single cellmRNA and secreted protein capture assay with proven sensitivity for detecting the most important predictive biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseasesThere is growing ...

Although signal transduction inhibitors occasionally offer clinical benefit for cancer patientssignal flux emanating from oncogenes is often distributed through multiple pathwayspotentially underlying the resistance which causes failure of most such inhibitorsMeasuring signal flux through multiple pathwaysin response to signal transduction inhibitorsmay help uncover network interactions that contr ...